Wednesday, January 9, 2008

From Nancy:

Not really down at all, actually, we never thought we had NH in the bag. Polls often wrong, I never put much stock in them. Depression not in order, at all. NH finish is not fatal to us and not that surprising.

Frankly, we were never locked to win NH, it was the polls and press yesterday and day before that made people think we were inevitable winners in NH which I was dubious about always, with their double digit lead predictions. And they did it so convincingly that Clintons even believed it themselves, hence all those desperate pleas yesterday afternoon by them -- so I am faulting the press for making our impressive second feel like a real loss tonight, not the close win by the underdog that it actually was.

Was watching with friends, and we were all like, you could see sheer relief on her face, not just excitement, she was as surprised that she won in the end as all of the pundits and pollsters broadcasting the early rumors of her political death this afternoon.

So, we didn't get where we wanted exactly in NH last night, but now we have impetus to get more people to fight and not take our winning for granted, always a mistake (the same mistake of Hillary's believing press and polls saying she was "inevitable").

I am getting more calls and notes than ever, even during the tight returns last night, and most of them are offering money to keep us maintaining our edge going forward and fighting off Hillary, so NH second means no one is resting on laurels for next month.

and Barack knocked it out of the park with that great speech. He was enthusiastic, pragmatic and classy, and spoke volumes about how poised, cool, and collected a leader he is and will always be!

Only trouble is that Hillary will now retool her stategy, and of course her old one was working for us!

Glad we were never complacent, and like Barack says, "Yes, we can!"

Don't lose faith, minor setback at best!

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